Russell D. Moore: "Ketika putra-putra saya tiba di keluarga, status hu...

"Ketika putra-putra saya tiba di keluarga, status hukum mereka tidak ambigu sama sekali. Mereka adalah anak-anak kita. Namun keinginan dan kasih sayang mereka masih berhenti berkembang selama setahun di panti asuhan. Mereka tidak tahu bahwa lalat di wajah mereka buruk. Mereka tidak tahu bahwa seorang pria aneh memberi makan mereka tegukan makanan padat yang menakutkan bukan penyiksa. Hidup di buaian saja tampaknya bagi mereka seperti kebebasan. Itulah yang saya lewatkan tentang doktrin adopsi alkitabiah. Yakin itu mulia dalam jangka panjang. Tapi dalam jangka pendek rasanya seperti neraka."

--- Russell D. Moore

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When my sons arrived in the family, their legal status was not ambiguous at all. They were our kids. But their wants and affections were still atrophied by a year in the orphanage. They didn't know that flies on their faces were bad. They didn't know that a strange man feeding them their first scary gulps of solid food wasn't a torturer. Life in the cribs alone must have seemed to them like freedom. That's what I was missing about the biblical doctrine of adoption. Sure it's glorious in the long run. But it sure seems like hell in the short run.